libutf8

Library

GPLv3

Active

libutf8 provides a C API for encoding and decoding UTF-8. It uses the C type wchar_t as its internal character representation. libutf8 is a "safe" decoder — it will not accept overlong byte sequences.

Downloads

You can download the latest version by cloning the git repository:

git clone git://git.lwithers.me.uk/libutf8

Released Files.
Version	Date	Source	GPG Signature (key)	Documentation	Doc Signature	Dependencies
1.3.2	2009-11-03	.tar.bz2	.tar.bz2.asc	.tar.bz2	.tar.bz2.asc

Older releases may be found here.

News

2009-11-03T23:12Z

1.3.2 released
Minor bugfix in utf8_encoder(), where passing a NULL pointer would result in the pointer being dereferenced rather than an EINVAL error returned.

2009-10-14T15:28Z

1.3.1 released
Bugfix in utf8_decode_char2(): test for overlength character was wrong.
Bugfix in utf8_decode_char2(): return value was not correctly set to (wchar_t)-1 on error.
These bugfixes also affect utf8_decode_char() and the *_force() variants.

2009-10-13T11:57Z

1.3.0 released — ABI change, soname bump
Changed license to GPLv3.
Upgraded build system to modern lw-build-system.
Tidied up documentation slightly.
Changed the utf8_isvalid() function into several new variants to test for valid UCS-4, UTF-32 and UTF-16 codepoints.
Added utf8_iseol() to test for end-of-line characters.
Switched away from using the bool type to just use plain C int instead.

20060825T1109

1.2.1 released
Upgrade build system to fix minor issues.

20060731T1603

1.2.0 released
This release is not different from the previous 1.1.2 release, except that it uses a new build system. The shared library naming scheme has also changed slightly (this version is 0.0.0).